{"id":73872,"date":"2020-05-11T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=73872"},"modified":"2020-05-11T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T00:54:06","slug":"irans-top-commander-lauds-launch-of-noor-1-satellite-as-shift-in-balance-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=73872","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Top Commander Lauds Launch Of Noor 1 Satellite As &#8220;Shift In Balance Of Power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, May 11 (NNN-TASNIM) &#8211; An Iranian army general said on Sunday that, the recent launch of Noor 1 satellite, by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), is a prelude to the &#8220;shift in the balance of power&#8221; in favour of Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The launch of the homegrown Noor 1 satellite, amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, shows the Iranian army is playing a role in the battle with COVID-19, said Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Hossein Baqeri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The great and historical achievement (by launching the satellite) marked a big intelligence defeat and scandal&#8221; for the enemies of Iran, particularly for the United States, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, the IRGC announced its plan to launch satellites into a geosynchronous equatorial orbit, 36,000 km above the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Apr 22, the IRGC announced the launch of Iran&#8217;s first military satellite Noor 1 into space, by the satellite carrier Qased, from the central desert region of the country, saying the satellite &#8220;successfully&#8221; reached the 425 km orbit above the Earth.&#8211; NNN-TASNIM  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, May 11 (NNN-TASNIM) &#8211; An Iranian army general said on Sunday that, the recent launch of Noor 1 satellite, by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), is a prelude to the &#8220;shift in the balance of power&#8221; in favour of Iran. The launch of the homegrown Noor 1 satellite, amid the outbreak of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":73874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,194,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}